Book-support.



F. H. FARRIS.

BOOK SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED M AY18, I9I7.

. 1,268,946. Patented June 11. 1918.

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. I I 4 /W' mz/gfw F. H. FARRIS. BOOK SUPPORT.

APPLICATlON FILED MAY 18, 1917 1 ,26.8,94z6. Patented June 11, 1918.

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1. 1 1 Be it; known that I, FRANK H. FARRIS, a j

citizen of the United States, residing at Medford, in the county ofGrant and State of Oklahoma, have invented i certain new: and usefulImprovements? in Book- Supports and T I do'hereby declare the followingto be a'full,

1 clear, and exact description of therinvention, 1

such-as will e'nableothers skilled in the art. to which it appertains tomake and jusethe same. y i :This invention relates to improvements in abook support and has for one of its objects videa device of thischaracter, which. is con the provision of a device of thisncharacter,

which is capable of supporting books ofseveral sizes and kinds andatvarious positions.

" Another objectof this inventionis to prostructed' from P a singlelength of lmaterial bent into a construction, which may 'bereadmilyconverted into several forms for supporting several kindsofbooks and in different positions. t1

A still further object of this invention is; the provision of a booksupport of the above stated character, which shall be simple, durableand efficient, and which may be manufactured andsold 'at a comparativelylow cost. With these and other objects in view as will become moreapparent as the description proceeds, the invention. consists of certainnovel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts aswill be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

For a complete understanding of my in vention, reference is to be had tothe following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a book support constructed inaccordance with my invention, illustrating a book being supportedvertically thereby,

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the book rapk converted to support anote book or the li e,

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the book rack converted to support abook horizontally,

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the book rack.

Referrin in detail to the drawings, the numeral 1 1ndicates as anentirety, a book rack, which is constructed from a single length ofmaterial, preferably stout wire, which may or ma not be enameled to tothe app ar 9 the device {11 f nooK-snrron'r.

Patented June 11;, 1918. Application filed May 18, 1917. Serial No.169,516. it

. at 2 having mounted upon the apex portion thereof, a rubber pad ortube 3, to form a non-slipping foot for the device when supporting abook vertically and also forforming a portion to engage a book whensupported horizontally to prevent the book from slipping thereon. Thearm portions 1 of the V-shaped member 2 are bent rearwardly and parallelwith each other as at 4: for cooperat- .ing with the Vi-shaped portionin forming an efficient base to the device- The ends of the portions 41converge upwardly and forwardly 13013, point as shown at 5 whence theyextend upwardly in parallelrelation to form vertically supporting arms6, which are bent at right angles to form horizontally supporting arms 7which are bent upon themselves to form spaces 8 for receiving the back.and

front of aibookas shown in Fig. 1. The ends of the horizontal supportingarms after be ing bent upon themselves are bent to form 1 hooks 9, whichare adapted to be hooked together as shown in Fig. 2 for the purpose ofsupporting a note book 10 thereon. The bends between the portions 4: and2 have mounted thereon, rubber pads or tubes 11 and'rubber tubes or pads12 are positioned upon the vertically supporting arms 6 and also arepositioned upon the horizontal supporting arms 7. When itis desired tosupport a ledger or other large book as shown at 13, in Fig. 1, theV-shaped portion 2 and the parallel por tion 4 are positioned upon atable or like support whereby the vertically supporting arms 6 aresupported or disposed vertically. The hinged portion 1 1 of the book 13has its lower end disposed against the pad 3, which will prevent thelower edge of the book from slipping forwardly. The vertical supportingarms 6 are then moved apart to permit the front and back of the book 13to be disposed within the spaces 8, also accompanied with the leaves ofthe book so that the book is supported in a vertical position,permitting any one of the pages to be read or copied therefrom.

When it is desired to support the note book 10, the hooks 9 are movedinto engagement with each other, causing the vertically supporting arms6 to converge and intercross each other as clearly shown Fig, 2.

The hin ed portion 15 of the note book 10 i Place eve e PQF iQQ it at thh when desired. a

zontal supporting arms 7 so that thefront and back of the notebook 10are disposed toward each other, which exposes the'p'ages of the notebook in View of the readerand also permitting the pages to be turnedandpasseddownwardly between the spaces B when desirlng to read the nextpage.

When it is desired to support a ledger or other large book in ahorizontal position as shown in Fig. 3, the hooks9 are" engaged witheach other and the device is disposed horizontally so that the pads 11and the curved portions 17 within the -horizonta1 supporting arms 7engage the rleskor support, whiehsupport the vertically "supporting arms6 horizontally, permitting the U hinged portion of the book l8-torest-upon the supporting-arms 6 where-they interoross each other asclearlyshown in Fig. B and the other end of the hinged portion of thebook to rest upon the pad3 upon the apexof the V-shaped member 2. Thefront and tack of the book-18 is then disposed against the upwardly andforwardly converging portions 5,-wherebythebook 18 is supported in 1 ahorizontal position and which will permit theleaves ofthe book'to bereadily turned While I have shown and described the preferred embodimentof my invention, it

"will be understood that minor changes in construction, combination andarrangement of parts may be made wlthout departing from the spirit andscope of the invention as claimed. 7

vertical, supporting arms, and being A bent upon themselves to form aspace for receiving the..front and= back of a book, and means forconnecting the horizontal arms together to permit the deviee*\tosnpportab'ook horizontally and also to support'QaI- noteibook vertically. l i

book rack comprisingasingle length of material having 1 a substantiallyVrsliaped portion, the. ends'iof the" arm portions of the Vi-shapedportion'abeing bent rearwardl-y and parallel to cooperate" with the 1V-shap ed upon tion in forming a a Phase, the lends of. the

Wardly and forward-1y and later bent upwardly to form verticallysupporting arms, the ends of the ivertical supporting-arms beingdisposed at fight: angles a horiparallelportions being bentto converge11p;-

zontal-plane thereto to form ho-rizont'al'ly supporting arms having;their free ends bent to form hooks, said hooks adapted :to beinterlocked with each other for supporting zontally.

In =testiinony Whereof Ialfix r-ny: signatnre in presence of tworwitnesses.

FRANK H. FAB-R18. Witnesses? IJJDJBEAL, A.M.EDMONSO'N.

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